Copperhead envenomations: Clinical profiles of three different subspecies

Veterinary and Human Toxicology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 149-152

  Keyler, Daniel E ^a,b   Vandervoort, John T ^b  

^a MINNEAPOLIS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENVENOMATION; HUMAN; MALE; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGKISTRODON; ANIMALS; ANTIDOTES; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; SNAKE BITES; SNAKE VENOMS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AGKISTRODON; AGKISTRODON CONTORTRIX; AGKISTRODON CONTORTRIX CONTORTRIX; AGKISTRODON CONTORTRIX LATICINCTUS; AGKISTRODON CONTORTRIX MOKASEN; EMESIS; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032949471     PISSN: 01456296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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